Last week, me and Mr Candy decided to make some tapes (VHS for you spring chickens) for Candy Grandad, who hasn’t quite entered the DVD generation. As a result we ended up going through our own childhood tape collections, and I found an old recording of a Chinese Variety show by TVB (the biggest TV […]

I own three Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited Supreme Shines in total, in a pink, a lilac and a glossy red. Cut a long story short: Pros: Gorgeous texture, gorgeous colour, just gorgeous to wear Cons: Not longwearing, expensive and the packaging! I don’t usually have a problem with the plastic casing of Shu Uemura Lipsticks […]

A while ago I asked if you felt that celebrities that endorsed beauty products should truly use the line they are promoting (rather than sneaking off for gold leaf facials or whatever it is they do). Then more celebrity revelations. Kylie states that she has given up Botox and uses Pond’s Cold Cream instead (around […]

Recently I had a seller tell me to send him $3 to cancel a listing. I know eBay almost inside out so I immediately waved a red flag in the sellers face and told him to scoot, but I thought I would just make it clear to anyone who wasn’t sure… When you buy something […]

Didn’t want to rant about random customer service experiences on here, but hey, I want to prevent anyone else from falling foul of using this god awful website called Intomobilephone.co.uk Stupid me – I though I had found a great deal for my mama and placed an order 11 days ago. Entered all her card […]

Thinking of doing another blog sale this week, on Saturday 24th April at 7pm GMT (before Britain’s Got Talent, oh telly addicts). What do you think? Can you make it? Do you want to see some kind of preview list? In the future blog sales will change – after the mad rush I will put […]

So its been announed that Estee Lauder have signed two new models, Constance Jablonski from France and Liu Wen from China. Over the years, models in Estée Lauder’s global campaigns have hailed from the U.S. (Karen Graham, Willow Bay, Carolyn Murphy, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hilary Rhoda), the U.K. (Elizabeth Hurley), Czech Republic (Paulina Porizkova), Poland (Anja […]

Sophie Ellis Bextor is certainly a very unique looking woman, although her jawline reminds me of Quagmire. She tends to wear quite bright, funky eye make up too – but what do you girls think of her latest look? I adore glitter, and she has a great cat eye shape for a lot of make […]

I’ve decided I have three health and beauty (albeit shallow) goals: 1. Lose weight (that old chestnut) properly. 2. Look after my skin properly. 3. Grow my hair properly. Fatty Can you believe I haven’t been abroad for the last 4-5 years? Life and work has got in the way but I am determined to […]

There have been a few of these types of covers in the past, but here comes another one – this time its Jessica Simpson on the cover of Marie Claire WITHOUT make up. Apparently. I have nothing against Jessica Simpson, other than the fact that one morning, a long time ago, one of her songs […]

**Updated (please see end of the post)** A few days ago, a fairly new online store emailed me to ask if they could use some of my images on their website as I was wearing a product that they are currently selling. They were apparently featuring images of their customers and bloggers modelling the range. […]

When Peaches Geldof was recently snapped during a drunken (and god knows what else) one night stand, she was quite clearly identified by the tattoos on her body. Peaches has quite a few tattoos and of course the rather distinctive long flower up her torso. Peaches is of course still a young girl – I […]

As a beauty blogger and a general complete beauty and gadget lover I accumulate a lot of things. Whilst I personally spend spare money I have on beauty goodies (as you can see from this site), PR are also generous with samples (although the many of these never see the light of day on Cosmetic […]

So yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to try adding some really ashy tones to my hair – I love ashy colours but now my hair has too much ash. White coloured ash. WRONG. We are in an emergency hair dye situation here girls I need to colour over this fast before […]

Jump for joy! As you can see there’s a new look to Cosmetic Candy – its been a long time coming! We are still tweaking and adding things so the site is not 100% ready but its getting there. If you have any feedback I’d love to hear it… Is something not working? Anything you […]

Ok – so if you guessed in the last Guessing Game you will want to know the answer – quite easy really ladies! Its just a Home Face Mask Making Kit! Its good for powder masks that need to be mixed with liquids and anythign generally too messy. Can you just use a normal bowl? […]

Everyone has been talking about Chanel Rouge Coco but I haven’t had time to go out and look at it in person yet. But I have no doubt that its spectacular. Chanel lip products tend to be. I love Vanessa Paradis – always have. Think she is the perfect woman for Johnny Depp. So the […]

Hallo Ladies! its been a while since I’ve done a random chit chat post but here is a quick bulletin, if you like, about what’s been going on. Blog Changes Mr Candy is working hard on blog changes and a new layout is imminent so don’t be disturbed if you log on one day and […]